Reply #11: Your last sentence there... [View All]

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implies that a "black person" is equivalent to a "white supremacist," rather than a "white person." Sort of implies that all black persons hate white persons, as it's written. I doubt that's what you meant to say, but it's a bit awkwardly worded.

Other than that, I agree with your basic statement, that killing for personal hatred is wrong. However, since we don't know anything yet, we don't understand why this happened. If the younger man plotted out and murdered the idiot just because he didn't like his hatred, he doesn't have much of a defense, although he can still argue that the older man's views enraged him beyond reason, or that he felt under emotional duress from hearing such hatred directed at him. (The story doesn't even get into whether he was a white supremacist or a separatist, but that's another issue). If the old guy was spouting racist crap and the younger guy just snapped, he's got a good involuntary manslaughter defense at least. If the old guy threatened him or made any form of violent threat, like maybe saying "You're just like all black people (insert favorite expletive here, there are certain words I just won't use), you ought to be killed," or something, he might even have a self-defense case, if he could prove he felt personally in danger.

Just sayin', without facts, this story is just written to push a few culturally charged emotional buttons. For all we know it was a simple robbery or a simple self defense case and the white supremacy had nothing to do with it. Could even be a mental illness issue, for all we know.